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Ten Challenges with Free Monitoring Solutions

Free IT monitoring software. It’s cost-effective, community supported, and its best practices are usually well documented.

But just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s free from challenges.

Our team asked a group of sysadmins and CIOs to share their experiences using free IT monitoring solutions. We heard about everything from the difficulty of enterprise-level deployment and scaling to lack of proactive support to the pain of being held hostage to technical debt and narrow expertise. 

Take a look at our infographic to see some of the challenges of free monitoring. 

Ten Challenges Free Monitoring Infographic

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